Description

The The GamiPress – Gamification plugin to reward points, achievements, badges & ranks in WordPress plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to arbitrary shortcode execution via gamipress_do_shortcode() function in all versions up to, and including, 7.2.1. This is due to the software allowing users to execute an action that does not properly validate a value before running do_shortcode. This makes it possible for unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary shortcodes.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-13499

CVSS Base Severity: HIGH

CVSS Base Score: 7.3

Affected Products

Vendor: rubengc

Product: GamiPress – Gamification plugin to reward points, achievements, badges & ranks in WordPress

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.05% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 23.34% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-20 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://www.wordfence.com/threat-intel/vulnerabilities/id/b30ab159-ff3c-4d46-b182-f8938097b837?source=cve
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gamipress/trunk/includes/functions.php
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/gamipress/trunk/includes/functions.php#L645
https://wordpress.org/plugins/gamipress/#developers
https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/3226227/

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